Stagea Towing?

[jager]

just asking people on there thoughts of having a stagea as vehicle to tow, i know i used my r33 gtst to tow my mates skyline to mechanics when he broke down and afterwards it took me about 1/2 hour of constant thrashin to get my car back to normal damm learning computers

question is stageas and towing car trailers with cars on it ie a 33 or similar wieght any good or am i just damaging a nice vehicle like the stagea

[R31Nismoid]

moved to a more appropriate area

[Stinky Rooster]

Do a search - our resident suspension guru and one of our mods both use theirs to tow race cars......

[hrd-hr30]

have a look at this thread http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/To...html&st=100

even if you get the 2000kg towbar that doesn't leave much capacity after the trailer. my trailer weighs 540kg and is considered light. most rental car trailers weigh 7-800kg, leaving only 1200-1300kg for the car you're towing. not many stripped out race skylines weigh in at that, let alone road cars.

4WDs are the best (ie safest) things to tow with. If you are going to be towing car regularly, you should consider gettng a more suitable tow vehicle. My old GQ Patrol is rated to 3500kg towing capacity braked, as are most heavy 4WDs. lighter things like Hilux, Navara, Pajero etc are usually in the 2000-2500kg range. A diesel 4WD will also return much better fuel economy figures than a Stagea too. My diesel GQ gets 14l/100km towing - about what a Stagea gets just hauling itself around!

[Adriano]

Your car needed to be thrashed? There is no learning in the stock ECU, the only thing is the low octane map if they detonate heavily, and that only resets when you turn the car off

[jager]

  Adriano said:

Your car needed to be thrashed? There is no learning in the stock ECU, the only thing is the low octane map if they detonate heavily, and that only resets when you turn the car off

adriano after towing the car for 20 mins , being an auto too (not sure if thatmade a difference) for a bit of time afterwards whenever you accelerated it would be slow to respond and the power output felt restricted ie you know when your missing a few g's a bit of constant foot to the slow soon leveled that out

and corect me if im wrong but doesn't the standard ecu have a learning system to it, from research i though it held up to the last 50 times you drove and setup the vehicle as so, so if you were a grandma driver it would give nice slow gear changes slower acceleration and better fuel eco, or if you thrashed it better response more fuel, not a huge difference in the vehicle however just slight

[pixel8r]

  jager said:

adriano after towing the car for 20 mins , being an auto too (not sure if thatmade a difference) for a bit of time afterwards whenever you accelerated it would be slow to respond and the power output felt restricted ie you know when your missing a few g's a bit of constant foot to the slow soon leveled that out

and corect me if im wrong but doesn't the standard ecu have a learning system to it, from research i though it held up to the last 50 times you drove and setup the vehicle as so, so if you were a grandma driver it would give nice slow gear changes slower acceleration and better fuel eco, or if you thrashed it better response more fuel, not a huge difference in the vehicle however just slight

I've always thought cars do a bit of this although I dont think the logic is as complex as you might wish.

It'd just have a few different settings it could use depending on your driving style, things like different shift points etc. for the auto.

Can anyone confirm (someone that knows what they're talking about, not like me) ?